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sorts ever since until to-day. However, I hope now she 



is all right again. 



This is a very charming place at the east end of the 

 Lake of Geneva — 1500 feet above the lake — and you 

 can walk 3000 feet liigher up if you like. 



What they call a "funicular railway" hauls you up 

 a gradient of 1 in if from the station on the shore in 

 ten minutes. At first the sensation on looking down 

 is queer, but you soon think nothing of it. The air is 

 very fine, the weather lovely, the feeding unexceptionable, 

 and the only drawback consists in the "javelins," as old 

 Francis Head used to call them — stinks of such 

 wonderful crusted flavour that they must have been 

 many years in bottle. But this is a speciality of all 

 furrin parts that I have ever visited. 



I am very well and extremely lazy so far as my head 

 goes — legs I am willing to use to any extent up hill or 

 down dale. They wanted me to go and speechify at 

 Keighley in the middle of October, but I could not get 

 permission from the authorities. Moreover, I really 

 mean to keep quiet and abstain even from good words 

 (few or many) next session. My wife joins with me in 

 love to Mrs. Donnelly and yourself. 



She thought she had written, but doubts whether in 

 the multitude of her letters she did not forget. — Ever 

 yours, T. H. Huxley. 



From Glion also he writes to Sir M. Foster : — 



I have been doing some very good work on the 

 Gentians in the interests of the business of being idla 



The same subject recurs in the next letter : — 



Hotel Right Vaudois, Glion, Switzerland, 

 Sept. 21, 1887. 



My dear Hooker — I saw in the Times yesterday 

 the announcement of Mr. Symonds' death. I suppose 



